[NCLUG] No Happy Beeps

[Chad Perrin]

On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 12:55:19PM -0800, nighthawk999 at bigvalley.net wrote:
> 
> And, apropos why not always run as root
> discussion [thank you everybody] I log
> in as root, run dhcpcd to get an address,
> resume a SETI at home work unit as root,
> switch to a second terminal, log in
> as my regular non-root user, startx, browse
> the Internet ... check credit card balance,
> log out of X, log off the terminal, switch
> back to first terminal, stop SETI at home,
> and shut down. Is this best practice, or no?

Sorry, I don't have anything to offer right now on your wireless issue,
but I'll respond to this:

I don't see anything in particular wrong with that approach, as long as
you don't accidentally type something destructive in at the root TTY
later.  Considering it seems you're running a TTY with root logged in,
and doing your day-to-day stuff in X, though, that looks unlikely.

This is an "off the top of my head" answer.  It has not been tested or
thoroughly analyzed.  Your mileage may vary.

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